Accreditation
BCRLT is certified by the State of Colorado and accredited by the Land Trust Alliance.
LTA Accreditation
The national Land Trust Alliance has established an accreditation procedure for land trusts holding conservation easements in the United States. Of roughly 1,700 land trusts across the nation, only around 150 have achieved LTA Accreditation. BCRLT is one of them. We were one of the first receiving full accreditation back in 2009.
LTA established an accreditation program for land trusts as the result of the rapid growth in the number of land trusts across the country and the lack of any clear way to ensure accountability in the work that was being done. Accreditation of land trusts is meant to bring these organizations to a level of professionalism and quality of work that provides landowners and the public the confidence in conservation work and land trust operations necessary to allow us to continue our work and mission.
In 2007, BCRLT jumped at the opportunity to apply for accreditation through LTA. Through the course of a two-year process BCRLT was granted accreditation in March of 2009. BCRLT maintains those high standards of policy, procedure and principle that were necessary to achieve our original accreditation.
For more about LTA accreditation, see http://www.landtrustaccreditation.org/index.php.
State of Colorado Certification
In 2009 the State of Colorado established a certification program for the state’s land trusts. BCRLT is fully certified by the State of Colorado to hold qualifying conservation easements in the State of Colorado that form the subject of a qualifying Conservation Easement charitable donation.
For more about Colorado state certifications for land trusts see http://www.dora.state.co.us/realestate/Conservation.htm.
